Regions almost all hospital beds are occupied and the number of cases is rising steadily. One of the cities that has witnessed a rapid increase in corona virus infections is a 1000 kilometers east of moscow the situation is dramatic more and more people are falling sick or dying from called 19 thats something out of tour can see caves and other undertakers are experiencing firsthand he and his colleagues are working around the clock our reporter met the men at work. With a steady stream of coronavirus dead speed is of the essence at the morgue every morning the team from the Funeral Agency to fight it while comes here to collect new victims of the pandemic. 29 year old actor kinsey kiev has been working at the funeral home for 12 years but he says hes never had to bury this many bodies going up there in such a difficult time a lot depends on the team we all know exactly what to do we know who picks up the coffin from which side which shoulder to carry on and that makes a difference how
A far greater toll that then the governments letting on we visit the city often far where undertake the tells us hes never been so busy. And the key architect of the European Union and the g. 7 guys from covert 90 former french president villages called a star led france during the 970 s. And laid the foundation for europes single currency. Im as welcome to the program the head of germanys Public Health institute says he expects the coronavirus pandemic to claim many more lives in germany at a News Conference this past hour the president of the whole bad cough institute lot of villas said to germany how to manage to stabilize the rate of new infections through restrictions in the past week spot he stressed the caseload remains too high. Feel or said he was particularly concerned about the rate of infections in care homes where cruising numbers of elderly residents are contracting the virus and he warned that hospitals are coming on the growing strain. Museum doesnt i mean good union or
Union and britain need a trade deal to prevent chaos at the borders in 2021 negotiators have given themselves until busy evening to resolve their differences but not about deadlines appears to be wobbling. Pablo folios welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel has set the table for a belief Holiday Season a short time ago she announced a raft of tough measures saying they were necessary to bring down the spiraling numbers of new covert 19 cases here in germany so measures that we put into place on the 2nd of november have not been sufficient. For a while we were able to stop the exponential growth. And how did plateau movements but now were seeing a new rise in infections an exponential growth once again and what that means is that many people are dying you have been following the statistics im sure and we also know that we are close to exceeding the response capacity of our Public Health systems and aim was always to prevent this being in the end this is why we must act a
Then move. On that shows that this is a very generous support package. I want to say i think it is absolutely justified he does if youre absolutely. Retailers and consumers not on the what they are facing in these last couple of weeks of the year it will be an exceptionally quiet Holiday Season but the hope is that that will also be true for hospitals. And Political Correspondent so when young joins me now simon welcome and almost full lockdown has been an announced as expected what are the main takeaways. Well i think the main thing is that the run up to christmas this year in germany will look very different from previous years and its incredibly drastic measure closing down nonessential retail from the 16th of december the time when a lot of people do their Christmas Shopping and that will mean an enormous amount for many businesses as well as individuals but the government is responding with this huge packages the finance minister said theyre costing between 10 and 12000000000. 00
On mind when she confronted a partial lockdown that will remain in place until at least early january but restrictions on get togethers will be loosened over christmas although some Public Health experts warn of the consequences. Winters coming. And german chancellor Angela Merkel warned it could be a long one. If you have notion to move them up we had already made clear in november that unless there were significant changes for the better it was highly likely that the measures in place until december 28th would be extended and thats what weve now agreed to do. With the record daily death toll reported on wednesday the partial lockdown has done little to turn the tide here in germany. He said i the simplest question is whether we leave the country in this state of half sleep or if we decide its some point to introduce significantly tougher measures well see how efficient the measures currently in place are. For now the restrictions will remain in place until january 10th for the vendor